Install from hard disk.

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:43:36PM -0500, Paul Halliday wrote:

> I have two drives in my pc164. What do i need to put on the second drive
> in order to use it as the installation media? I have tried dd'ing the
> floppy images to the second hard drive but this doesnt work. Any pointers?

Generally you need to copy the 'release' area from one of the FTP
sites -- so, for 4.9-RELEASE on i386, you'ld copy the stuff from under:

    ftp.freebsd.org://pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/

That should also be what appears inside the installer iso images,
which is an alternate place you could copy what you need from.

Note: this *won't* make the 2nd drive bootable as an install system.
You'll have to use the floppy or CDRoms to boot from still.

Note2: Not sure exactly how much of the stuff under is strictly
necessary to do an install.  You'll have to experiment.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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